Exclusive Interview: Maggie O’Farrell Talks Hamnet, Shakespeare and Her Best Writing Advice
She Writes had the opportunity to sit down with the inescapably brilliant author Maggie O'Farrell following the adaptation release of Hamnet. We got the chance to talk about what it was like collaborating with Chloe Zhao [...]
February 2026: The Substack Issue
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From the Trenches: The Drafting Process that Took Me From 300 Rejections to 3 Offers of Representation
Like most writers, I never had a choice in pursuing this profession. It chose me. As a kid, I loved playing with dolls until one day, I grew bored. I had too many blondes, too many [...]
Writing
From the Trenches: The Drafting Process that Took Me From 300 Rejections to 3 Offers of Representation
Like most writers, I never had a choice in pursuing this profession. It chose me. As a kid, I loved playing with dolls until one day, I grew bored. I had too many blondes, too many [...]
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Editing
The Read Deal on Working with a Developmental Editor
Alle C. Hall is an author and editor from Seattle, WA. She has faced her share of hard times, each experience fueling her work as an author and giving her writing an emotional depth in the [...]
Marketing
How Can Fiction Writers Use Substack?
For fiction writers, it can be challenging to know how to use Substack to your best advantage—especially when your energy is already stretched thin by drafting and revising a work-in-progress. Novelists often get stumped on what [...]
Marketing
How Can Fiction Writers Use Substack?
For fiction writers, it can be challenging to know how to use Substack to your best advantage—especially when your energy is already stretched thin by drafting and revising a work-in-progress. Novelists often get stumped on what [...]
Publishing
Publishing
Authors With Must-Follow Substacks
As writers, we're constantly bombarded from all angles with enough craft advice to make our heads spin. While it's impossible to completely block out the noise of social media, many authors have turned to Substack as [...]
